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Provincetown
Race Point Beach
Date visited: 5/13/2024
We started our Provincetown adventures at this very nice beach. This beach is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Dogs are allowed here year round, but they do close sections off to dogs to protect nesting birds in the summer time. There was a drastic slope to get down to the water, and I must admit, walking up it through the heavy sand was a challenge. We only walked about three miles on the beach, because we had to save some energy for our Commercial Street adventure, which came next.
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Commercial Street
Date visited: 5/13/2024
This is the main tourist area in P-Town! The narrow street is lined with all sorts of shops, and I mean "all sorts"! While it's not quite the summer season, everything was open. It was a perfect day weather wise, bright sun and mid 60's. It was a Monday in mid-May, and it was still pretty lively here. I can't even imagine what it would be like in the middle of peak season! Provincetown seems pretty dog friendly. Many of the shops left water bowls out for the dogs, and I noticed many people brought their dogs into some of the shops. We walked about two and a half miles here, focussing on the main commercial section of the strip. This was a very fun and different walk, and we took many pictures!
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Commercial Street
Date visited: 6/11/2025
We started at the west end of Commercial Street, near Pilgrim's First Landing Park. This portion of Commercial Street is less "commercial", with mostly residential houses and a few inns. I loved the three dog water balls labeled "tap", "evian", and "vodka". Of course Lexi went right for the Vodka! (it was the same water in all three). There is plenty of access to the Town Beach, and we checked that out as well. We did overlap a bit with the busy section of the street, at the heart of the tourist area. It was much crazier than our previous visit. We were also visiting during Pride month, which made it all the more crazier. It was hard to take photos of the dogs because of all the people, but we covered the road pretty thoroughly the first time around. We wound up walking another three miles, on top of the five we had already walked, so it was a tiring, but fun day for us! My Apple Watch recorded over 20,000 steps!
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Commercial Street
Date visited: 9/13/2025
This was our third visit to the main tourist area in Provincetown. This time we concentrated on the section east of where we left off on our first visit that we hadn't covered yet. This section has less shops and restaurants, and more art galleries. Many of the galleries featured outdoor sculptures. We only covered about a half mile of new territory, as the street starts to get more residential at that point. On our way back, we did head into the busy part of the street that we walked through on our first two visits. We also checked out the brand new Cannery Wharf Park and MacMillan Pier before grabbing a bite to eat and calling it a day.
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Ryder Street Beach
Date visited: 5/13/2024
This is a small beach off Commercial Street, highlighted by the big blue chair. I had to take the opportunity to get the dogs to pose for a picture on it!
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MacMillan Beach
Date visited: 5/13/2024
This is another small beach off Commercial Street. One of the access points is from the Johnson Street parking lot, which happens to be where we parked. The section of the beach over here is known as "Dog Beach", and dogs are allowed to be off-leash from 6AM - 9PM in the off-season, and from 6AM - 9AM and 6PM - 9PM in-season (Memorial Day to November 1st). We checked the beach out at the end of the day, so Mandy and Lexi were pretty beat at this point, but it's always nice to find off-leash dog beaches!
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Pilgrims' First Landing Park
Date visited: 6/11/2025
The Google reviews made this spot sound like some sort of paradise, but it's pretty much just a patch of green with a monument in the center of a traffic circle! I think some of the reviews may have been referring to causeway on the other side of the road. It's a mile out across the breakwater rocks. We had already walked over five miles at this point of the day, so we'll have to save the breakwater for another adventure. Instead, we walked down the west end of Commercial Street.
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Town Beach
Date visited: 6/11/2025
This is the beach area along the southern shore of the west end of Provincetown. There are multiple access points from Commercial Street. Leashed dogs are always allowed, and signs indicate the times that dogs can be unleashed, though we encountered a few of those even outside of those times. The waves are gentle here, just the way Mandy and Lexi like them, and they took advantage of the opportunity to call off an relax in the water for a bit.
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Route 6 Sign
Date visited: 6/11/2025
I'm sort of a road geek and couldn't resit the urge to take a photo of the dogs in front of this sign. The sign is near the east end of Route 6, which shows that 3,205 miles to the west end of the route in Bishop, California. We've visited many places along Route 6 through four states, so we know the eastern portion of this route well. It's too bad the state of California cut the route off in Bishop, instead of it's old routing which went all the way to west coast in Long Beach, California.
Herring Cove Beach
Date visited: 9/13/2025
This beach is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore and is known as one of the most popular beaches on the Cape. It is located on the very tip of the Cape. It was a bit of a let down for us. First of all, even though it's passed Labor Day, they still charged $25 for parking, even arriving after 2PM. The section that I wanted to walk, leading to the lighthouse was still closed off for dogs due to nesting birds. I really don't think birds were still there, I think they just never opened the area back up. I thought about using the Province Lands Bicycle Path to reach the lighthouse, but the walk would have been too long. So we headed the other direction The sandy part of the beach was narrow, and waves were mild. We turned around once we reached "Boy Beach", and headed back. The weather was fantastic, but I wasn't as impressed with this beach as much as some of the other Cape Cod National Seashore beaches we visited.
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Province Lands Bicycle Trail
Date visited: 9/13/2025
This is a paved bike trail through the sand dunes connecting Herring Cove Beach to Race Point Beach. It was late in the day and warm, so we only walked about a half mile or so before turning around and heading back to the beach.
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Cannery Wharf Park
Date visited: 9/13/2025
This is a brand new park off Commercial Street, opened earlier in the year. It features picnic tables, benches and a green. There is also access to the waterfront from here.
MacMillan Pier
Date visited: 9/13/2025
This was a brief walk along the pier near the marinas and Provincetown Harbor. The pier is right in the center of the busy tourist area off Commercial Street. There are nice views of the water, and the many boats docked at the pier.
